Offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling has singed new contract commitments for four of its premium jack-up rigs, which are set for deployment in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Mexico.The new awards have a combined duration of approximately 1,300 days, including fixed priced options, and an estimated contract revenue of more than $129 million, according to Borr Drilling.In the Middle East, the Arabia II jack-up rig…
Offshore accommodation rig provider Floatel International has secured another contract offshore Australia for its Floatel Tirumph accommodation rig.The assignment is for approximately 35 days with an option for the client to extend. The expected start date is in the fourth quarter of 2026…
Offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has secured a three-year contract for the J.T. Angel jack-up rig with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for operations in the Mumbai High, offshore India.The total added contract value is approximately $40 million…
Malaysia’s oil and gas services Velesto has secured a drilling contract for its NAGA 5 jack-up drilling rig by PTTEP HK Offshore and PTTEP Sarawak Oil, collectively referred as PTTEP, for its 2025 - 2026 drilling campaign in Malaysia.Under the contract…
Offshore drilling firm Shelf Drilling has secured a five-year extension with Saudi oil and gas giant Aramco for its High Island V jack-up drilling rig.The extension is in direct continuation of the rig’s current contract with Aramco, extending the commitment until July 2030…
Inertial navigation technologies specialist Exail has secured a contract with Brazilian offshore services company Mitang to deliver 30 Quadrans Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS) for floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSOs) operated by Petrobras off Brazil…
Equinor has found oil in an exploration well, dubbed Drivis Tubåen, on the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea.The well, 7720/7-DD-1H, was drilled in the Drivis structure on the Johan Castberg field. According to preliminary estimates, the size of the discovery is 9-15 million barrels of oil…
Salunda, a provider of digitized solutions for safety critical industries, has strengthened its presence in the Americas deepwater region with the deployment of its Latch Hawk monitoring system on a semi-submersible rig.Integrated with the drilling control system on the rig…
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea, to be drilled with Transocean’s Transocean Encourage rig.The drilling permit is for the wellbore 6506/12-PB-3 H in production license 094…
Equinor and its partners have drilled a dry wildcat well on the Lit prospect in the North Sea.The well 25/11-30 S was drilled in production license 169, which was awarded in the 13th licensing round on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) in 1991…
Aker BP and its partners have drilled a dry well on the Rondeslottet prospect in the Norwegian Sea.Wildcat well 6405/7-4 was drilled in production license 1005, which was included in the Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2018, with awards taking place in March 2019…
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for wildcat well in the North Sea.The drilling permit is for a wellbore 15/8-3 S in production licence 1137, operated by Equinor with 50% working interest, with partner Orlen Upstream Norway holding the remaining 50%…
Calvin Norton spent 60 years with Friede & Goldman, with a career that spans and tracks some of the highest highs and lowest lows in the evolution of offshore energy production. As Norton heads toward retirement, and Friede & Goldman prepares to celebrate its own 80th anniversary…
Offshore accommodation firm Prosafe has confirmed the contract with Petrobras for its Safe Notos semi-submersible accomodation vessel, which will be put to work for safety and maintenance support offshore Brazil.Petrobras has ratified the result…
Offshore drilling contractor Odfjell Drilling has completed the Deepsea Aberdeen’s special periodic survey (SPS), with the semi-submersible rig returning to operations after three weeks of scheduled off-hire.As a result, all of the company’s own fleet rigs SPS projects are now completed…
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